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From:	Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>
To:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: non login "rc" needs customized environment
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:16:59PM -0500, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> | The environment can be modified with ssh, via  ~/.ssh/environment.  ssh
> | also provides ~/.ssh/rc to run commands before the user's command is
> | started.  It's run by the user's login shell as taken from the password
> | file.
> 
> The ssh/rc thing is busted.  The user's session doesn't inherit
> the environment it computes.

yes, but sshd behaves like this since 1995, and it's not
always a good idea to change the default behaviour.